Senior Software Engineer - SharePoint Embedded Team

SharePoint Embedded is a rapidly growing service at the center of Microsoft's cloud, reaching almost every part of the company, like Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot. You will be a part of a team that can fundamentally change the way that developers across the world deliver delightful, document-centric applications to millions of people. 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will create and build things that delight and protect our customers! You will be working with a team of amazing engineers, PMs, and designers, and work closely with other teams across Microsoft to deliver large scale, distributed architectures, and features to meet OneDrive and SharePoint's core infrastructure needs.  

In this role, you will design and deliver systems that enable our developer community to build and operate their document-centric applications, improve core systems performance and efficiency, and ensure zero customer impact throughout the launch of new features. You will deliver systems to meet our business continuity planning goals, provide telemetry for optimizing the service and drive our response time for detecting and resolving service issues down. 

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds—including those who have followed non-traditional or alternative pathways into engineering.

This role is based in Redmond, Washington, United States and is eligible for relocation support.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go/Golang, or Rust.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of industry programming, software development, and/or software engineering experience, including debugging, algorithm design, and delivering production-quality code. 
• Experience assessing security risks in both new and established systems, and designing and implementing detection, mitigation and resolution strategies for them. 
• Experience designing cloud-scale services and distributed systems with a focus on reliability and performance. 
• Experience collaborating with partner teams to meet engineering goals in a unified manner.  

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go/Golang, or Rust. OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go/Golang, or Rust.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years Industry experience with C#.
• Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components.  
• Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design, patterns and secure software design concepts. 
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects that include multiple subsystems. 
• Demonstrated ability and eagerness to work across and partner with multiple engineering teams to achieve business goals, ability to learn new systems quickly and adapt new methodologies to our service.  
• Experience mentoring and coaching other engineers, fostering a growth mindset.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 14, 2025.

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• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. 

• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 

• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. 

• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.